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buyer from Italy, who learned of his love of small Italian classics, and offered to help him find them.
Next, Murray talks about his 1963 Abarth 1000 GT Bialbero. Based on the Fiat 600 chassis, it features a Giaocchino Colombo-designed twin cam engine that made just under 100 hp . More impressively still, the car may hold a land speed record for vehicles with 1,000 cc engines, having managed to hit 122 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
While all of those cars remain largely original and not “over-restored,” as Murray says, the final car proves that he isn’t opposed to a bit of restomodding. Even then, though, he doesn’t do it like other people. The final car of the video is an Alfa Romeo 1600 Junior Zagato. A controversial car in its day, Murray says he was always a fan, but couldn’t fit inside of it. He says, too, that he was a fan of the Alfaholics “GTA-R,” so he called the company up and asked if they would give that car’s treatment to the 1600 Junior Zagato.
They said yes and, because the cars are based on the same platform, there was a surprising amount of overlap. The body, though, took over a year to get right, because they had to lower the floor pan and move a crossbeam in order to give Murray enough room to drive it. Eventually, they succeeded, and it was actually the car that he drove to the office on the day that this video was filmed.
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